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Chamber of Commerce: Don't Micromanage OSHA
The Chamber of Commerce submitted a letter urging House leaders to support future amendments of the House FY 2008 Labor, Health and Human Services and Education appropriations bill that if offered, would block current provisions that compel OSHA to issue a variety of regulations and standards. |
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ISEA Challenges OSHA PPE Standards Proposal
The International Safety Equipment Association (ISEA) has challenged a proposed OSHA rule to regulate the use of safety eyewear and hard hats, and is offering an alternative approach that ISEA says would maintain worker protection. |
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OSHA Proposes Revisions on PPE Standards
In the May 17 Federal Register, OSHA has published a notice of proposed rulemaking to revise the PPE sections of its general industry, shipyard employment, longshoring and marine terminals standards. |
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Keep the Gloves On!
The cost of hand injuries in just one sector of the construction industry is six times what it would cost those employers to offer every employee appropriate hand protection. |
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Face the Facts: Your Face Deserves Better Protection
Although it has been said that worker eye safety has improved during the last half decade, the level of protection a worker’s face receives still leaves much to be desired. |
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Using Your Head
As the head’s protective armor against falling objects, hard hats are the first piece of PPE that construction workers grab when going to a job site. Yet traumatic head injuries still are on the rise. Experts try to explain why. |
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increased use of helmets by motorcyclists and bicyclists to reduce head injuries from crashes... costs of road traffic injuries in the Americas and worldwide through the launch of the first World Report on Road Traffic Injury Prevention as a resource that can help to prevent and avoid deaths... injuries worldwide are estimated at U.S. $518 billion per year, including $100 billion in developing... the health systems of the countries of the Americas are strained by the toll of injuries among dr...
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NIOSH Mining Guide - Underground Workstation Design Principles | CDC/NIOSH
visibility and head clearance while wearing a hard hat.
If you follow the first principles for workstation
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NIOSH Document: Laboratory Investigation of Seat Suspension Design Performance during Vibration Testing, Mining ID: 2171 | CDC/NIOSH
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NIOSHTIC-2 No. 20031198
2006
Laboratory Investigation of Seat Suspension Design Performance during Vibration Testing
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Mining injury statistics show that a significant number of back, neck, and head injuries
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